WELCOME TO DOUBLE VISION. WE'RE A SUPERNATURAL ROLE PLAY SET IN THE MODERN NIGHTS IN THE SUNNY STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND OUR LORE FOLLOWS THE RULES ESTABLISHED IN WHITE WOLF'S WORLD OF DARKNESS UNIVERSE. WHEN FIRST REGISTERING ON THE SITE PLEASE DO SO WITH A OOC ACCOUNT ALL IN CAPITALS.

<p>Since making the decision to stay in LA on a more permanent basis, Henrik hadn't seen much of Eliasz. Not that they were always connected at the hip. They both had their own things they enjoyed doing and they respect enough to know that sometimes they still needed some alone time. And well Eliasz seemed to have found this whole new born art thing he'd been interested in and well at times Henrik was just too damn old and set in his ways. It seemed that his restoration company was far to boring for his childe to get behind which was probably the truth.<p>Regardless after almost a full week of seeing very little of one another they'd settled on having an actual 'date' night. Something they hadn't done in perhaps too long if he couldn't even recall it. Having decided to meet at this small rustic bar not to far from where their haven was, Henrik knew it was perfect for them. Loud, crowded and with a predisposition to darker lightening that would allow them to simply blend in better with the humans inside. After all this was suppose to be a normal night for them. Or well as normal as possible considering it usually ended with them sharing blood and the like.<p>Knowing that Eliasz was going to meet him at the bar, Henrik left his car at home knowing that it would be easier to walk back afterwards than risk some punk messing with his baby. Throwing his well broken in leather jacket over top of the long sleeved burgundy shirt he was wearing, Henrik force himself out of his apartment, and down the street arriving at the bar almost a full twenty minutes before they were even suppose to meet. He never could be late, not even if he tried. But it didn't really matter, he'd go and grab their usual table while he waited for Eliasz to show.<p>He'd been lost in his thoughts when he finally entered and it was only the sudden presence of his hand on his back that broke him out of his thoughts and even before he'd said anything, the touch alone had pretty much told him who it was. Everyone had their own tune of energy to them. Something that anyone with even a little bit of power could read and he couldn't deny that he was happy to see him. He as always happy to see him, no matter where they were or what was going on. "Thought you'd stood me up." He tossed out with a grin before grabbing a hold of his hand and pulling him forward for a proper kiss. </p>

Katharina was a kindred of the Ventrue clan, poising as a the young daughter of a noble lord in around the small village of Børglum Denmark. She was betrothed to Prince Henrik III and while Henrik would never see the throne, it wasn't his destiny to take the throne in Denmark, his position of power helped him climb his way up the social ladder within the Ventrue Clan. <P>Henrik was the first childe that Katharina ever made and since he completed his account and decided to do more traveling, Katharina has only embraced one other childe. She spent a good chunk of her existence over in Europe and has only recently come over to America. She'd currently staying in the Ventrue Tower with LaCroix while adjusting to life here in the States and is unaware of the coupe that her progeny is planning against the current Prince.<P>Apart from the thing outlined in Henrik's application, the rest of Katharina's backstory and whatnot is completely up to the player that takes her. I'd love for her PB to stay as Natalie, but if you have someone else in mind I'm sure we can talk about it.

This wasn't the first time that Henrik had made such a public appearance. He was after all well known within the art's community and his connections had farther reaches than he gave them credit for sometimes. There was no denying that this plan of his was nothing short of daring. But if he was to be keeping up appearances, it would be silly for him to be spending too much time away from the limelight. The people in the city would start to talk and the last thing Henrik wanted at the moment was to have too much attention on him.<P>After all trying to stage a coupe against the Prince wasn't something to be taken lightly. But there were a few of his kind that believe in his cause. That the old ones had long since lost their touch with the modern night. There needed to be a new face in management. It might turn out to be nothing more than Chaos but it would be better than how things were now.<P>Moving around the gallery, mingling with mortal and kindred alike, Henrik kept his mask up. Careful to appear like everyone else, at ease and enjoying what this night had to offer. After taking a moment to speak with the mayor and possible maneuver a foot into the office on the next campaign. Henrik found his attention to be drawn to one particular women wearing a rather bold red dress. Feeling her eyes on him, Henrik instead focused his attention back onto the people around him charming them as he went, working the room with practiced ease. Half an hour later, he found himself almost face to face with the red head who'd been more or less watching him all night long. It hadn't taken much work for him to delegate to those below him to find out her identity, and while he'd been surprised to learn that the police captain had a daughter, let alone one as breathtaking as he'd seen. He could almost imagine the comments Eliasz would have had running from the moment Henrik had seen her if he'd here tonight.<P>Still it had presented him with an interesting opportunity. One he wasn't about to pass up. Slowly he made his way towards her keeping himself still within the crowded rooms in case she turned out to be more enlightened to what really went on in this town when the sun went down. <b>"Hello Myka isn't it?"</b> He started off, a sort of soft smirk on his lips as he waiting for her reaction.

<div style="width:300px; text-align:justify; line-height:160%; font-size:11px;"><BR>SIRE: Katharina Laurentius<Br>CLAN LINE: Ventrue<Br>SECT: Camarilla<Br><Br>THE EMBRACE: Henrik was embraced by his wife on the very same night they exchanged their vows. It might seem strange in today's day and age, but during those days it was mostly common practice. Especially in Royal households. After he awoke from the embrace it became apparent that while he'd been able to hide his sexual orientation when he'd been human, as a newly embraced childe his emotions were all over the place and impossible to pin down. It took nearly a week and a half before his feeding preference solidified itself and made itself clear, and by the time it happened Henrik had been beside himself with relief, thankful to not have to spend more time throwing the blood back up because his body rejected it.<Br></div>

<div style="width:300px; text-align:justify; line-height:160%; font-size:11px;"><bR>DOMINATE: Dominate's aspect of the curse of vampirism is that it devaluates the basics of true friendship or intimacy. Dominate also dulls the empathy of the user, and one must take care not to become accustomed to being surrounded by sycophants at all times. Some become incapable of understanding why anyone would not agree with them, follow their commands or do whatever they can to serve them. While undeniably powerful, its use almost always adheres to two important restrictions: the user must meet the eyes of the target and must speak in language that is clearly heard and understood by the target. Furthermore, this Discipline cannot be used upon Cainites of lower generation and cannot force someone to be self-destructive or defy their Nature. Using Dominate is often considered very heavy-handed, hardly appropriate within what passes for polite vampiric society, but it is also favored by those of age and status as an efficient means of asserting their authority. <P>FORTITUDE: Fortitude is a Discipline that grants Kindred unearthly toughness, even to the point of resisting fire and sunlight. Fortitude fulfills its part of God's curse in that it bred arrogance and overconfidence. Sometimes, Cainite masters of Fortitude become convinced of their own indestructibility to the point that they disregard even mortal danger, as their survival instincts slowly atrophy.<P>PRESENCE: Presence is the Discipline of supernatural allure and emotional manipulation which allows Kindred to attract, sway and control crowds. Presence reflects God's curse upon Caine in that makes the vampire believe that he is the center of attention and come to believe the image that everyone keeps telling them. Regular users of Presence find themselves to attract attention regardless, sometimes activating the discipline without conscious efforts. This discipline is fairly common among vampires, especially within the Camarilla, both because of its versatility and because of its subtlety. <p>Many Presence powers can be used upon large groups of people at once and transcend virtually all boundaries of gender, race, religion, class, and supernatural status. Though Presence can be resisted through force of will and by ignoring the user, most do not realize when it is being used upon them.

FEEDING RESTRICTION: Because of his clan weakness and his attitude towards others who shared Royal Blood, Henrik is only able to feed on those who would have in his day been considered the Aristocrat in Society. Royal Blood is the only thing that satisfies his appetite and is the only type of blood that he can keep down. Drinking the blood of his own kind, is a possibility but it's looked down upon by the Kindred Society, especially for someone of Stature like himself.</center>

<div style="width:300px; text-align:justify; line-height:160%; font-size:11px;"><BR>Henrik is very intelligent because the way he is going about it is conniving. He's got so many things going for him. He has the empire in the vampire world as he has climbed the ladder far quicker than anyone else. He has reached the point of almost being a pure blood, to the point of where is makes the pure bloods nervous of him. <P>In Mafioso terms, he has made himself into a main guy without being born Sicilian. He has also built up a group of people around him, and an aura, a mystique around him that increases his power. What we end up learning later is that everything he has plotted and schemed is part of a greater design. He is a great architect for what he wants.</div></center></div></div>

Henrik wasn't always a vampire. He'd been human once, Henrik was born in 940 AD, in Denmark during the reign of Gorm the Old and was embraced by Katherina into the Ventrue clan in 966. Although Henrik had been a Prince in Denmark during those times, he wasn't in line for the thrown and ended up becoming betrothed to Katherina as a way to strengthen their two families. If he'd only known the truth family he'd be strengthening he might have run for the hills screaming like a mad man. It was a very common practice for members of the Ventrue clan to place kindred into positions that would in the end help strengthen their ranks in the long run.<P>Although he willingly married Katherina, he didn't grow to love her as many said he would and considering he was embraced on their wedding night, his true sexual orientation became quite apparent when he awoke and his first few kills were all of pretty aristocrat boys. He learned quickly however that being a vampire is perhaps but the ultimate form of role play. After all he needed to pretend that he was still human. Rumors went on in their small village about his sudden appearances only after the sun had gone down and by the time things really started to get stewing Katharina decided that it was time and proper for them to leave for bigger pastures.<P>He and Katharina moved around quite a few times, spent a good few years in Norway and Finland before returning to Denmark where he completed a trial process known as the Accounting and recived his Acknowledgment from The Prince, which in turn allowed him to be considered as a full member of the Camarilla now. Having become such he and Katharina decided to part ways for a little while and Henrik allowed himself to do some more traveling.<P>Henrik found himself in Poland around 1524, where he crossed paths with Eliasz. They fell in love quickly and lived mostly in secrecy seeing as homosexuality in those times was punishable by death. A year passed quickly and in 1525 the plague made itself known in the small town of Podole. Eliasz the unfortunate fellow he was, caught the disease and fell ill quite quickly leaving Henrik with few options. In the end with permission from the Camarilla Prince in Podole, Henrik embraced Eliasz.<P>Once Eliasz got his feet back under him and had more sense of control over the beast that now raged inside of him, Henrik started him on his own Accounting. Teaching him about the Camarilla and their clan. The rules of the Masquerade and how they'd evolved over the years. He took everything that Katharina had taught him during his own Accounting and passed it along to Eliasz as well as a few things he'd learned on his own the hard way. He sailed through is own accounting and when Eliasz got his Acknowledgement things sort of equaled out between them. Even with the age difference between them.<p>Two hundred or so years later, found the two of them living in London back in 1723 when the medieval ages were in full swing. Times were way different then how they are in modern nights and even now he'll stop and have a private chuckle to himself when he happens to run into those that call themselves 'medieval enthusiasts'. While most people think of Robin Hood, King Arthur and the like there was nothing mystical about those nights. They were just dark. In reality, even back then the Vampyre reigned supreme, they just hid themselves better.<P>Many things happened in the years that passed them by since Eliasz embrace and the modern nights they now find themselves in. Henrik as old as he is now has sort of become stuck in his old ways, unlike Eliasz who has easily adapted to how things are done in these new nights. Los Angeles was a place he never thought he'd find either one of them living in but it's become home are to quickly and well Eliasz seems happy here. Happier than he had in a long while and Henrik isn't about to uproot him again simply because he'd bored. All he really needs to do is simply find himself a hobby, and possibly take out LaCroix before he burns this whole damn town around him.

</div> </div></td><td><div style="width:210px; height:345px; background-image: url(http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa430/nozama09/brooklyn_zps296f0d01.png); padding: 0px 0px 5px;"><div class="shipperinfo"><p>So this lovely lady here is Brooklyn Fell. She's Caleb's wife and up until only recently was someone he believed to be dead. They were both together coming home from a movie date when they were attacked and dragged into a dark alley. From where Caleb had been thrown too, it looked Brooklyn had her throat ripped out and had died instantly. However that wasn't the case. While yes she'd been fed upon, Brooklyn had actually been found by Coutts, Prince Lacriox's right hand women and was brought back to the tower he resides in. As an influential lawyer in and around LA, Lacroix saw reason in keeping her and fed her his blood embracing her as one of his childe.<p>Although Brooklyn originally wanted to find Caleb, she was lied too and told that he'd been killed the night that Coutts had found her, when in reality Lacroix knew of his survival and the fact that he was working with with Anarachs. With her power and influence he wasn't about to risk loosing her to the anarchs. She's adapted well to her vampire life and during a nightly hunting prowl just happened to catch sight of someone who reminded her of Caleb. Imagine the shock to learn that it really was him. Now they're trying to figure out how to make things work seeing as they're fighting on opposite sides of the fence so to speak.